Commissioners to break ground on new prison

Monday

Apr 24, 2017 at 2:00 PM

SUNBURY (AP) — Officials in central Pennsylvania will break ground on a new prison.

WKOK-AM reports county commissioners have scheduled the event for the new Northumberland County Prison at 9:30 a.m. Friday. The prison complex will be built at the former site of Coal Township's Northwestern Academy, which was destroyed in a fire in 2015.

Officials say the prison will hold 186 inmates. Commissioner Sam Schiccatano says the complex may include a drug rehab facility and a homeless shelter. Schiccatano says he is considering moving the Weatherization Department to the site as well.